Regulation of hepatic lipogenesis in starved and diabetic animals by thyroid hormone.
The effects of intragastric feeding with glucose and of the administration of L-triiodothyronine (T3) on in vivo rates of hepatic lipogenesis were investigated in control (fed ad libitum on normal diet), diabetic (fed ad libitum on normal diet), fat-fed (fed ad libitum on high-fat diet), and starved (food removed for 48 h) rats. Two days of T3 treatment increased hepatic lipogenesis in control and fat-fed animals but not in the diabetic or starved animals, although increases in lipogenesis in diabetic animals were observed after 4 days of T3 treatment. Intragastric glucose feeding increased hepatic lipogenesis in the livers of control animals and T3-treated control animals. Such increases are mediated by an increase in the circulating insulin concentration, as increases are not observed in diabetic rats or T3-treated diabetic rats. Glucose feeding failed to increase hepatic lipogenesis in fat-fed rats or starved rats. Insulin injection together with glucose feeding increased lipogenesis in the fat-fed group but not the starved group; i.e., impaired insulin secretion following an oral glucose load may in part explain the lack of response in the fat-fed but not the starved animals. Marked increases in hepatic lipogenesis after glucose feeding were, however, observed if either the starved or the fat-fed animals were treated with T3. The physiological implications of these observations are discussed.
D000818:Animals; D003921:Diabetes Mellitus, Experimental / Q000378:metabolism*; D004041:Dietary Fats / Q000494:pharmacology; D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D005260:Female; D005947:Glucose / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000494:pharmacology; D007328:Insulin / Q000494:pharmacology; D007700:Kinetics; D008055:Lipids / Q000096:biosynthesis*; D008099:Liver / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains; D013217:Starvation / Q000378:metabolism*; D014284:Triiodothyronine / Q000494:pharmacology*
D004041:Dietary Fats; D007328:Insulin; D008055:Lipids; D014284:Triiodothyronine; D005947:Glucose